BlackNoxis wrote:Good, so the next thing you will do is to look for the sabayon image and add is a entry, I showed you which was the way, but there is another thing here, can you acces grub.conf ? (It's a menu.lst)

Fitzcarraldo wrote:I've skimmed over it, so read the SL Wiki article: HOWTO: Restore Grub2 for the full details.

Don't want to appear to be stubborn, but I don't like grub2 and want to use grub legacy if possible. If I restore grub2 then I am back where I started from. I don't have any idea why when I reset the MBR from inside Mepis that it missed writing the entry for Sabayon into the menu.lst file.

I do appreciate everyone's help. You all are much more knowledgeable than I.

In the X thingy, you gotta put your sabayon drive, so I presume you know how to find it. And about the /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.39-sabayon, I presume also you have the image prepared somewhere there. If not, the only solution is (as Fitz said) Restore Grub2

In the X thingy, you gotta put your sabayon drive, so I presume you know how to find it. And about the /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.39-sabayon, I presume also you have the image prepared somewhere there. If not, the only solution is (as Fitz said) Restore Grub2

Sabayon is /dev/sda9. I copied and pasted your code and pasted into my menu.lst. I then changed 'menuentry' to 'title' and put '8' for the X because grub legacy starts counting at zero.

Thanks for your help. I will let you know if it works.Will probably be a few hours before I post back. Have to leave.Harold

In the X thingy, you gotta put your sabayon drive, so I presume you know how to find it. And about the /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.39-sabayon, I presume also you have the image prepared somewhere there. If not, the only solution is (as Fitz said) Restore Grub2

Sabayon is /dev/sda9. I copied and pasted your code and pasted into my menu.lst. I then changed 'menuentry' to 'title' and put '8' for the X because grub legacy starts counting at zero.

Thanks for your help. I will let you know if it works.Will probably be a few hours before I post back. Have to leave.Harold

After copying, pasting, and editing the menu.lst as stated above, I tried it and got this;

initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.39-Sabayonerror 19: Linux Kernel must be loaded before initrdpress any key....

Now I did notice while looking in the /boot folder of /dev/sda9 that file 'initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.39-sabayon' is a gzip type file. Could this be causing the menu.lst to get errors?

Don't remember if I said this earlier in this diatribe but, after the install and allowing grub2 to re-write the mbr, I rebooted and updated from the CL. It took hours to update with DSL. Then the next day I wanted grub legacy back, so I booted into Mepis and did the gui resetting of the mbr. When I rebooted I had grub legacy back but no menu entry for Sabayon. Since then I have reset the mbr from inside Mepis with the same result. I am not really efficient from the CL and am not able to use man pages to help me, but I am wondering if the files needed to boot Sabayon are located in different places than Ubuntu or Mepis and grub legacy can't find what it needs to boot Sabayon. Just a thought.